I removed and installed gnome-system-tools from software manager - no difference.

I believe samba is running because I can stop and start the services. I just don't have a means as before to share folders from the gui.

I'm getting frustrated with LMDE. I appreciate the work that went into it. It takes great talent but from an end user. Here are the problems I am facing:

Wine cannot be installed from the repository after a fresh install. I've tried a number of suggestions - no go.My printer required a manual driver install and a series of commands to get it to work via usb.From a fresh install my sound did not work in Firefox/flash.SAMBA which worked great in the past is giving me lots of problems now.I'm having difficulty switching from mate to cinnamon. It just doesn't work.